Philosophy A-Level
Idealism
What Idealism means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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The view that reality is fundamentally mental, with ordinary objects as collections of ideas dependent on a perceiver.
The view that reality is mind-dependent, so that for Berkeley to be is to be perceived.
Topics that use Idealism
- Perception as a source of knowledge (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Alleged inference
- Argument from hallucination
- Argument from illusion
- Best explanation reasoning
- Direct realism
- Disjunctivism
- Dreams versus waking experience
- Hallucination
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